Improvement in safety-guards for pistols



UNITED STATES RANDALL D. HAY,

` iMPRovr-.MENT i the iigure is a sectional elevation.

rlhis invention has for its object to prevent pistols and from this cause. a guard inatically iuterposes itself between au ordinary the premature dischargeof cidents continually resulting The invention consists in mei' and nipple of or between the ring-pin in breechdoaders,

striking together, produce charge, place whenever said ered as types of to the falling of the hammer u being retracti the said guard wa-y than by nieansof the tri always on the nipple, so as to prevent the com to the charge whenever the hammer accidentally i'alls.

munication of the spark In the drawing,ais sisting of a steel upper end of a rod, h, a guideway formed iii the part of the ger, z', pivoted at its rear rod h, extends forward der the trigger RANDALL Greek, in the county have invented a new Safety-Guard for Pistols; and following to be a full, clear, and exact description of erence being had to the accompanying ing, making apartof this specification, in

and metallic cartridge or between any two parts in a pistol, whatsoever they may.

an explosion of the such interposition ot the guard taking parts are separated, said guard being automatically withdrawn from between the nipple and hammer, considtlie aforesaid parts, previous pon the nipple, ole in no other plate that is affi l thatslides vertically in frame in rear of the revolving cylinder B. The lower of the rod h enters a cavity in the hinder portiou trigger-guard b end in the sliding and bends upward 7s, passing between lugs c,

OF CROOKED UR N SAF project D. Hai', of of Stokes and curved the same,'ref

drawwhich in case the actliat alitothe hammuzzle-loader,

mer in curved trigger be, which, by

'the

strikes tirin g,

ger, and being' when i I claim A of a pistol,

A curved iinunthat E TY-GUAR Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.4 109,513,

neath the trigger. extremity to the trigger-guar the lower side the spring rod h and mer, so t ple whenever ingA mechanism at half the cap,

pulled it may force the t' and the rod h downward,

discharge having flies back to the p and the finger i against be seen as a safety device,

when it Having thus described'my inven desire to secure Witnesses: Z

EEK','NORTH GA upward from the trigge finger t',

ot' the latter. l is twofold, it guard a hat the upward ag the hammer is su prevent let fall the fin ger t conti spring t is neede should be there, and elsewhere.

as new, and

Patent, is

The combination of the guard a,

finger i, spring as described.

l, and trigger S. ALLEY,

Si B. ZicLAa:

rear en y and thu guarda from the nipple be L throws upw against the trigger, a the hammer, as before.

guard a opera being always Alrrifiizrrr 'OFFICE'.

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dated November 22, 1970.

ainst cock,

RANDALL D. HAY.

r-guard b, be- A spring, L, atlxed at one d beneath the bears at itsv uprrl)` er end against he function ot' having to press th the hamguard may slip over the nipfficiently drawn y premature explosion before cocking, or is accidentally disengaged from thedischargor full that case striking the guar the spring l having also ham- d of the linger s withdraw fore the trigger the dog that liberates the hammer. Th

' taken place,

osition proper the trigger k tor the next ard the nd the guard a. It will thus tes perfectly the nipple oil' the nippleV tion, what by Letters rod h, curved substantially 

